MEDITATION FROM AN INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
A. C. Andrade, C. Andrade
Indian Journal of Psychiatry October 1, 1991
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Commentary Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Nonclinical individuals such as relatives, friends, and non-mental-health professional colleagues consulting about situational problems or problems of living, plus one diagnosed, treatment-resistant case |
| Intervention | Meditation |
| Topics | Meditation |
| Key points | The authors propose that meditation is a suitable and almost invariably helpful intervention for situational problems of living in nonclinical individuals, especially when psychic or somatic anxiety is present, and report that it was also useful in a diagnosed, treatment-resistant case. |
Abstract
In our personal lives, we are often consulted by relatives, friends and non-mental health professional colleagues for problems of a situational nature, or problems of living, which rarely warrant a psychiatric diagnosis. We cannot undertake formal psychotherapy in this population, nor are drugs or conventional behariour therapy procedures (such as Jacobson's progressive relaxation) quite appropriate. We have, instead, suggested meditation in many such cases, almost invariably with good results. While meditation is most helpful when psychic or somatic anxiety is present in a nonclinical population, we have also observed its utility in recalcitrant, diagnosed case (Andrade and Andrade, 1991).